Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-07-22
siR.AN WINNEMUCCA'S RIDE.


sitting with Captain Bernard at about
$50 p. NJ. in little room at the station,
when it was reported that mounted
party was coming towards us from the
west. 1t soon proved to be our messen-
ger to the Piutes, Sarah Winnemucca,
With her companions. She came ahead
of them riding very rapidly At first
she could hardly speak for crying, she
was so weary and excited.
The following account was recorded
in the journal of the day.
about $50 P. NJ, Sarah WinnemuccR
came in, riding fast had been to hostile
camp; brought out her father and
brother; others followed. and were pur-
sned, overtaken, and taken ~bapk. She
heard firing, and fears that her brother
Lee was killed; says Matches aided the
white men to escape from the camp and
went with them. She reports Oytes and
Egan, with their bands, still detained in
the hostile camp; says arms and plum
der we're offered to tempt them to join
e. hostiles,; then threats and coercion were
'Jtried locates camp near Juniper lakes,
yStein's mountain; gives number at about
>~sf0e; brought her sister-in-law into our
= camp, and implores help for her father
- wttofn she left behing with a few men
and guns guarding the fugitive women
and children"
! Sarah's story is of sufficient historic
81 interest to introduce here few of those
- graphic incidents which she herself has
since recorded.
"We [Sarah and the Indians George
and John, Piutes] followed the trail
= down the Owyhee river as much as ff-
they had camped, and where they had
been weeping and cutting their hair.
So we knew that Buffalo Horn 1.-THE
'sBannock leader] had been killed"
They found oh the trail the whip of
;. the stage driver VhoShad been killed,
and other articles from time to time
which made tie blind trail when cross
i1s tho rocky bcda osoter to follow.
Teeas1rl5 .hro4 t-arra.ty came to had
been owned by a frontier settler, Mr.. 6.
B. Crawiey. Everything combustible
had been burned, but there were still
considerable fire and fresh tracks about
the premises. Alter delaying here to
take a.litte food and rest they deter
mined to follow the fresher of the two
branching trails. This led them to-
wards STEMS mountain. They were
then near Juniper lakes. Five miles
farther ON they" caught glimpse of two
people, dressed like Indians on the slope
of tho leo~ntain Garah's account Of
this Il aotinC ie unique Gas we came
nea,e. 70 sncn, aaid 20 George Call to
them He did so. 1 saw them rise to
their feet. l waved my handkerchief
at them again, and one of them called
out, Who are you said, Your sis
ter Sarah. It was Lee Winnemucca,
my brother who had called out \
Lee said, o dear sister, you have come
Bannocks.'"
Her brother represented that her
father had been treated very badly
that his friends had been stripped oil
guns, horses and blankets. aud that
there was great peril to life to her and
her companions. "For," he said "they
will surely kill you, as they have said
they will kill every one who comes with
messages from the white people, for In
dams who come with messages are nc
friends of ours. They say so every
night. Immediately Sarah and 'hei
4 1,
psing OF blankets and putting on of war
paint, into Indians proper; then all to-
getherethey went on to the grand en-
campment "The mountain we had to
y. go.~0per.swas very rocky and steep
= almost perpendicular. Sometimes it was
very hard for us 10 climb up on our
hands'and knees, but We got up at last
and looked down into the hostile en-
campme nt.es Oh such sight my eyes
met! 1t was beautiful; 327 lodges, and
about $50 warriors" Greater numbers
were close at hand they were down in
''f'o little valley catching horses, and some
were killing beef This was. cart of the
united camp Of the Bannocks and
Piutes.
A little later, Sarah had worked hen
way into her fathers lodge containing
several Piute men and women. She
says, Everyone in the lodge whispered
% Sadie, you have come 10 save usp'
She and her brother succeeded in COM
Dunicating with most of her father,
friends. BY concerted action, quite 8
number, estimated at seventy-fye in al
left the camp in the niaht.
They had stopped for little rest and
food when. Of sudden. they. saw-one o